as ever tried. Added to the nature of the temptation itself was the greater sensitivity of Christ ?. It is possible that the ultimate and most severe temptation of Jesus came in the Garden of Gethsemani. Here Jesus was tempted to abandon the plan of God and to ?let this cup pass from me? (Matthew 26:39). Clearly, ?Jesus experienced worse temptations than we do.? Hence, the temptations Christ faced were real precisely because they were tests of and trials to His power. That is, ?when [the Bible tells us Jesus] was tempted ... it implies He was tempted in all His thinking, desires (emotions) and decision-making ability. Christ was tempted in every part of His being as a person is tempted in every part of human nature .?Another point we must remember in disputing the argument of peccability from temptability is that ?temptation to sin does not necessitate susceptibility to sin ?. The impossible can always be attempted. While success may not be likely, or the attempt may be impractical this does not in and of itself mean that such an attempt cannot be done. Walvoord states ?while the temptation may be real, there may be infinite power to resist that temptation and if the power is infinite, the person is impeccable .? As an example, Walvoord quotes Shedd?s example of an army: ?[it is not correct] to say that because an army cannot be conquered, it cannot be attacked. ?There is also Biblical evidence that Jesus was truly tempted as we read in Hebrews ?for we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weakness, but one who was tempted in every way that we are? (4:15).In summary then we can see that the argument of Jesus Christ?s peccability cannot be supported by the temptation argument. For one to be tempted does not necessarily imply that one must be susceptible to the temptation. Furthermore, Jesus was tempted in every aspect of the term. True, His temptations were different from those we experience, but they were none t...
